GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

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• jasonjmcghee 21 minutes ago
  > the rust-gpu project has to emulate pointers[8], which we consider a blocking issue for most HPC benchmarks.

  Why is it a blocking issue?

  I feel like this is very aligned with the goals of rust-gpu.
• rfgplk 12 minutes ago
  Fascinating how many people still overcomplicate offloading to GPUs.
• Thomashuet 43 minutes ago
  That's promising but did they publish any code? I can't find anything in the abstract.
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  • supermatt 17 minutes ago
    It is a part of the rust codebase:

    https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/offload/internals.html https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/131513
• jheriko 7 minutes ago
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• iberator 1 hour ago
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  • aabhay 1 hour ago
    Genuinely curious what these constant changes are. In fact I don’t feel they’re moving fast enough to give us improvements to core.
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    • frollogaston 52 minutes ago
      It was changing quickly in the earliest releases, about 10 years ago. Like one day I pulled our repo and there was new "?" syntax, but that was a feature I'd been wanting anyway.

      Edit: Oh, async/await was a bigger and more recent one, 2019. I've heard that this wasn't an easy decision for them but was kinda needed.

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      • aabhay 37 minutes ago
        A few years in between releases with a sane versioning system seems fine to me. If you don’t want new features don’t build with that new toolchain.

        It’s not javascript where you need to support all possible browsers.

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        • frollogaston 26 minutes ago
          Teams will disagree over what toolchain to use, and you will read others' code, so this doesn't dodge the issue. Otherwise there'd be no complaint about C++. I don't think Rust is bloated though, every feature has a very good reason.
  • jjice 1 hour ago
    That's an opinion. One you're very welcome to hold, but it's not universal by any means. Lots of people enjoy rust.
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